FCS doesn't remember my Keyboard Layout

Hello everyone !
I'm living in France, I have a french keyboard, however my system is in English and all my applications are in English.
I've taken out from the package the keyboard layout for french keyboard in FCP. I put it in my FCP User Settings. I launched the application, choose the french keyboard layout (it then gives me the same alert message than whan I was with Mac OS X (10.4) : "Keys may not match properly". But then if I quit FCP and launch it again, the keys shortcuts don't work ("jkl" or "b" or any of them). I have to choose again the Keyboard Layout inf the Keyboard Menu. And that's boring...
(and I have to say it works perfectly on Tiger, it just appeared since Leopard).
I've tried to trash de FCP User Settings Folder, but it's the same.
Any ideas ?
Thanks !

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Windows 8.1 is driving me nuts beyond believe once again. I have 8.1 Pro update 1 English, installed from the VLK iso from our Volume License / SPLA account. As we are a Dutch company, the Location is set to The Netherlands, as well as the date/time format.
Therefore in my keyboard settings the language is Dutch (NL) but I set my keyboard layout to US, as below:
As you can see there are no other languages our installed. This worked for years with Windows 7 and before with XP. Windows 8.1 however KEEPS changing my keyboard layout to plain Dutch making my keyboard unusable. The language bar in the systemtray, or whatever
it's called in this OS, shows THREE layouts, which are actually 'selectable' and work as if they were installed. However, they are not 'really' installed, as per the screenshots above.
This is driving me completely mad. Why on earth is Windows making descisions for me which I should be making myself? In addition, in my oppinion Windows should NEVER change somthing as trivial as a keyboard layout by itself. People don't change switch keyboard
even when logging on to a remote system that has a different layout configured. Whoever came up with this 'automatic switching per application' idea once again had no clue of real-life usage at all.
I've added those two languages I do NOT want to my keyboard layouts and removed them. Sure they are gone then, and as only language NLD with layout US is left, the language bar in systray is gone as well. After a few days all three are back, and my keyboard
is producing wrong characters again.
I've tried with regvalue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout\IgnoreRemoteKeyboardLayout set to 1, to no avail at all. It just keeps changing. This should help to prevent my keyboard when changing when I RDP to one of my servers.
The advanced settings in Language don't help either:
'let me set a different input language for each app window' is unticked.
Override for default keyboard is now set to Dutch - US, like I want it. Doesn't help either.
I cannot reproduce it on demand, settings do NOT change when connecting to my RDP server(s). They do NOT change when I open any of my used programs, being IE, Chrome, CMD.exe, notepad and a few others. It shouldn't either as I disabled the 'keep settings
per application'.
I have changed the keyboard shortcut from alt-shift or whatever it was to 'none'.
How to prevent Windows 8.1 completely from changing the keyboard layout I use? Is there any way to check WHY or WHAT actually changes my keyboard?

This might be really late to this post but I've been having this issue while playing games, particularly those which are complex enough to require Control, Alt, Shift. At first like some people here suggested
Windows Key + Space was the cause, but even after removing all alternate layouts (for reference, I want the UK layout, but it was switching to the US Layout) it was persisting.
This post pointed me in the right direction, go into your Language Options
> Change Override (Advanced). At this stage I've noticed there is the Switching input methods section, look for
Change language bar hot keys and here I fount Alt + Shift
was being used for switching Between input languages - a key combo I'd probably hit quite often just purely by accident. You can change the key sequence to no binds.
I haven't fully tested it, but it appears to be working for now - and I hope its an extra option for people to look at if they're running into this issue.

Keyboard layout indicator in gnome panel, red icon instead of letters

See the image, red round icon is the keyboard notification, but it shoud be ( or was ) letters.
Any idea how to change the icon back to letters? I have 2 layouts, changing gtk theme or icon theme doesn't help.
Thanks.
Last edited by gofree (2010-09-28 12:19:31)

Wey wrote:
Did you check the session logs? Did you verify that the applet in fact isn't present (and not just lacks an icon)?
edit: for the capslock-issue, go to the region panel in gnome-control-center, switch to the layout-tab and click options. There should be a list with the appropriate preferences. It defaults to shift+capslock by the way, which works fine here.
If session logs is in .xsession-errors, then I have this file ending with
[1305307574,000,xklavier.c:xkl_engine_start_listen/] The backend does not re
quire manual layout management - but it is provided by the application
[1305307574,000,gkbd-status.c:gkbd_status_set_current_page_for_group/] Page fo
r group 0 is not ready
[1305307574,000,gkbd-status.c:gkbd_status_set_current_page_for_group/] Page fo
r group 0 is not ready
[1305310904,000,gkbd-status.c:gkbd_status_set_current_page_for_group/] JS ERROR: !!! Exception in callback for signal: message-icon-added
JS ERROR: !!! message = 'source is null'
JS ERROR: !!! lineNumber = '417'
JS ERROR: !!! fileName = '/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/notificationDaemon.js'
JS ERROR: !!! stack = '([object Object],[object _private_Shell_TrayIcon])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/notificationDaemon.js:417
([object Object],[object _private_Shell_TrayIcon])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:110
_emit("message-icon-added",[object _private_Shell_TrayIcon])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/signals.js:124
([object _private_Shell_TrayManager],[object _private_Shell_TrayIcon])@/usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/statusIconDispatcher.js:53
([object _private_Shell_TrayManager],[object _private_Shell_TrayIcon])@/usr/share/gjs-1.0/lang.js:110
PS Caps issue is fixed now. Thanks. Caps Lock itself was disabled in Caps Lock key behaviour branch in Options in keyboard layout panel.
Last edited by thoice (2011-05-13 18:33:42)

Non-english keyboard layouts work in some programs, not others

In some programs, I can set a non-English keyboard layout and have the appropriate behavior when it comes to diacritics - in, say, the brazilian layout, hitting { then a will give me a á, and so on. It works perfectly fine in Firefox and xchat, for instance. But in other programs, opera and openoffice to name two I've tried, this fails. I either get a garbage character when I hit the first diacritic key or I just get the diacritic by itself and then the accentless vowel: ´a.
Completely non-English characters still work fine; I can get ç in the Brazilian layout and ñ in Latin American and the Georgian one works fine too, since Georgian doesn't have diacritics I presume. It's just diacritics that don't work.
I first noticed this problem after I installed SCIM, so I assume it has something to do with the SCIM installation, but I don't know what I did in the process of installing it that would've messed things up.

thayer wrote:Your best bet would be to post your problem to the dwm mailing list:
[email protected]
Will do...
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